It’s Still Alive - ‘The Deadline’

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Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This episode features an essay from Jill Lepore’s ‘The Deadline.’

Why do we insist on misreading ‘Frankenstein?’ Hardly a day goes by without someone comparing some new technology to Frankenstein’s monster. But there’s a much richer set of lessons to draw from Mary Shelley’s book.

Today on the show, Jill reads her essay “It’s Still Alive.” And then afterwards, Jill and Ben talk about the meaning of the story, the biography of its author, and how what you read shapes who you are.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:10.0	In the 90s, New York Detective Louis Scarcella locked up the worst criminals.
0:14.8	Putting bad guys away.
0:16.3	There's no feeling like it.
0:18.0	Then jailhouse lawyers took game led by Derek Hamilton.
0:21.9	Scracella took me to the precinct and alive.
0:24.0	20 men eventually walked free.
0:26.4	Now, in the Burden Podcast, after a decade of silence,
0:30.3	Louis Scarsella finally tells his story story and so does Derek Hamilton.
0:35.0	Listen to the burden on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.0	Huh.
0:41.0	Hmm. Huh. What? Oh my goodness!
0:53.0	Wow.
0:54.0	Huh.
0:55.0	Oh my gosh.
0:58.0	Wow.
1:00.0	Oh my gosh. Wow.
1:02.0	Oh my gosh. Radio Lab.
1:03.0	Adventures on the edge of what we think we know.
1:07.0	Very few stories get put to use as often as Frankenstein. Hardly a day goes by without someone comparing AI to Frankenstein's monster.
1:21.0	No story better instantiates our popular understanding of the relationship between technological innovation and ethical culpability.
1:28.0	And as Jill Lepore argues in her essay, it's still alive.
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